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About SocialMediaDNA

SocialMediaDNA is about sharing knowledge on social media and law enforcement. Topics vary from online components in public order, criminal investigations, intelligence, prosecution to emergency management and communications. More

About SocialMediaDNA

SocialMediaDNA is about sharing knowledge on social media and law enforcement. Topics vary from online components in public order, criminal investigations, intelligence, prosecution to emergency management and communications. More
 

App: SafeTrek

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, SafeTrek
You watch or read the news, so you know the world can be a dangerous place. On the other hand, statistically, a lot of the serious dangers will never actually happen to you.?So when a situation starts looking dangerous, you might hesitate to call the police until it’s too late. Instead of making the wrong decision, there’s an app you need to have one hand.?It’s called SafeTrek (Android,?iOS) [...]
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App: Find it, Fix it

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Find it, Fix it, government, seattle
“Find It, Fix It” is a smartphone app offering mobile users one more way to report selected issues to the City of Seattle. With Find It, Fix It, reporting an issue is as easy as snapping a photo with your smartphone, adding detailed information, and hitting submit.The map’s “drag and drop” feature or the phone’s own technology can be used to pinpoint the location. Android users can Read more →

App: EyeWatch

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Eyewatch, india, women
I am squatting on the floor in Prabhavati Jaiswar?s home when she turns to me and says, ?I don?t make tea very often, but would you like a cup?? The 37 year-old?s house, located in the Rajiv Gandhi Nagar colony of Dharavi, a sprawling slum located in the heart of Mumbai, has two parts. A wall, not much taller than Prabhavati, separates the kitchen from the living room. [...]
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App: Alibi

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: alibi, app
The Alibi smartphone app (Android) promises to be ?a DVR for your life.? It records audio, video and location around the clock to provide proof of what happened whenever necessary. (Associated Press via CBC)[/caption]It?s the ultimate in ?set it and forget it?, once started the alibi app always has the last hour of one?s life. The obvious problems with U.S. wiretapping laws notwithstanding, the implications for police are significant: [...]
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App: MyWitness

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, MyWitness
MyWitness (iOS, Android)?has been designed for those times when you’re in danger, feel threatened or need help. Once installed MyWitness sits silently in the background of your phone ready to record details in such circumstances. The data you record is sent to a secure storage facility in the cloud for safe-keeping. Your Personal Response Team can respond to the data captured and coordinate a response if [...]
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App: High There

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, high there, pot, smoke, smoking, weed
Weed smokers finally have their own version of Tinder thanks to a new dating app called High There. The idea behind the app is simple: Marijuana users aren’t always comfortable bringing up on dates that they enjoy smoking weed, so High There removes that worry by creating a place for like-minded smokers to meet up with each other. The Colorado-based startup is currently only available in the 23 states where [...]
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App: pplkpr

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, people, peoplekeeper, pplkpr, safety
Don?t know how you feel about someone in your life? By pairing a heart rate monitor with thepplkpr iOS app, you could soon find out. The app pairs up with any Bluetooth-enabled heart rate monitor?to track your physical response around certain people in your life. Biofeedback from those devices log?reactions such as joy, anger, sadness, and?then?uploads what it determines to be those emotional reactions?to the app. [...]
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App: Thailand Tourist Police Buddy

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, buddy, Police, thailand, tourist
? A new smart phone app rolled out by the Royal Thai Police aimed at improving safety for holiday markers. Tourist police in Thailand have launched a new safety app. The mobile technology is aimed at improving safety of tourists. The app known as Tourist Buddy Application works via a smart-phone and offers safety tips as well as travel information. Tourists can also get in touch with [...]
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Kansas City Mob Tour

By Arnout de Vries on July 13, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, city, kansas, mob, tour
Stand at the corner of Fifth and Gillis streets in Kansas City today and you?ll see a deli tucked inside the first floor of an old brick building. But punch an app on your smartphone and it will take you back to the 1970s, when the Kansas City Mafia held gambling games on the building?s second floor several times a week. Walk a couple of blocks to Missouri [...]
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App: Driving While Black

By Arnout de Vries on July 2, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, attorney, Driving While Black, frisk, human rights, Justice, Police, stop
Though the developers of the soon-to-be released “Driving While Black” smartphone application want motorists to download their product, there is a time when they definitely don’t want users searching for it. “Do not reach for your phone when you are talking to police,” stressed Melvin Oden-Orr, one of two Portland lawyers creating the app. Avoiding moves that could make police think you’re reaching for a gun is just [...]
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